"The Hertfordshire Pope", by F Lumbye, was published in 1905.
It is the story of the only British Pope, Adrian IV , born Nicolas Breakspear, c1100-1159.


In 1905 A.D., the rules of Pope Gregory XIII's original Easter Canons

dictated an Easter-Sunday date of March 26th., but, because of Clavius'

changes, Roman and Protestant congregations celebrated Easter-Sunday on

April 23rd. A similar 4-week discrepancy occurs every 19 years after this

first "Clavian Easter" of 1905 and will continue up to 2190 A.D.


Pope St. Pius X was the first pope since the Counter-Reformation Pope St. Pius V to be named a saint. That occurred in 1954.


In celebration of the recent 100th birthday of the cinema,

the Vatican released a list of films that it thought noteworthy for various reasons.

La vie et la passion de Jésus Christ (Life and Passion of Christ), made by Ferdinand Zecca and Lucien Nonguet (1905, France)and
identified on the Vatican film list as La Passion Pathé, is the

one that caught my attention. Never seen it.


Marcel Lefebvre was born in Tourcoing, France, November 29, 1905
from a family which gave almost fifty of its members to the Church
since 1738,
amongst them a cardinal, a few bishops and many priests
and religious. After the baptism of her newborn child, Mrs. Lefebvre
embraced him
and said: "This one will have a great role in Rome, close
to the Holy Father." Of her eight children, two became missionary Priests, three girls entered in different religious congregations and the
other three founded large Catholic families.


Sometime later, Fr. Lefebre was excommunicated.


The core of the Vatican Observatory Meteorite Collection
was originally assembled by Adrien-Charles, Marquis de Mauroy
(1848-1927), a distinguished agronomist and a "gentleman-scientist"
of the old French nobility. A great friend of the Church, he donated
a selection of meteorites--more than 1,000 samples--from his personal
collection in 1905, and they were housed at the Vatican Observatory (Specola Vaticana),
first in Rome and then in Castel Gandolfo. In 1935, Adrien-Charles'
widow donated the remainder of his collection.


In 1905 the Polish National Catholic Church's Seminary was founded; (It was later named Savonarola Theological Seminary).